Slipstreaming SP3 / SP4 for RIS....

Howdy! Howdy!

I use RIS a good bit to install Win2000 Professional. I
have it all "nice and pretty" - meaning I have created a
$OEM$ folder and have a lot of the hotfixes and qchain.exe
located in that folder and use cmdlines.txt to minimize
the time that I have to spend at v4.windowsupdate.com
after the initial installation....

It is also clear to me that if I want to have WIN2000 SP4
clients then my RIS Server has to be at the SP4 level. I
create that image first and can then do any SP3 or SP2 (
why in the world would I want SP2??? ) images...

However, I have a question. I generally copy the contents
of the I386 folder from my WIN2000 Pro CD to a folder -
that I created called I386 - on my RIS Server. I then
create a folder called SP3 and copy the extracted SP3 I386
folder to that. I then slipstream ( using the -s: switch )
the SP3 files to my image. BTW - can I truly call this
an "image"?

Maybe I have misunderstood a few posts in here but IIRC
some people have been stating that this is an incorrect
method! It has worked flawlessly for me to this point -
but if I am doing something sytematically incorrect I
would like to correct that part of my procedure.

Thanks everyone,

Cary

BTW - I am going to look for the posts that lead me to
believe that I could be doing something incorrectly...

And you are not having any problems deploying images with SP4 ?

I have done it according the KB of microsoft:
http://search.microsoft.com/gomsuri...ben-us%3b258868

Here they state that Slipstream Switch for Windows 2000 Service Pack
Update.exe Does Not Work with RIS Server Images . But from what I understand
from your mail, is that you do not experience this specific problem?

"Cary Shultz" <cary90240@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:0a7c01c346d8$74a386a0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Howdy! Howdy!
>
> I use RIS a good bit to install Win2000 Professional. I
> have it all "nice and pretty" - meaning I have created a
> $OEM$ folder and have a lot of the hotfixes and qchain.exe
> located in that folder and use cmdlines.txt to minimize
> the time that I have to spend at v4.windowsupdate.com
> after the initial installation....
>
> It is also clear to me that if I want to have WIN2000 SP4
> clients then my RIS Server has to be at the SP4 level. I
> create that image first and can then do any SP3 or SP2 (
> why in the world would I want SP2??? ) images...
>
> However, I have a question. I generally copy the contents
> of the I386 folder from my WIN2000 Pro CD to a folder -
> that I created called I386 - on my RIS Server. I then
> create a folder called SP3 and copy the extracted SP3 I386
> folder to that. I then slipstream ( using the -s: switch )
> the SP3 files to my image. BTW - can I truly call this
> an "image"?
>
> Maybe I have misunderstood a few posts in here but IIRC
> some people have been stating that this is an incorrect
> method! It has worked flawlessly for me to this point -
> but if I am doing something sytematically incorrect I
> would like to correct that part of my procedure.
>
> Thanks everyone,
>
> Cary
>
> BTW - I am going to look for the posts that lead me to
> believe that I could be doing something incorrectly...

Cary,

The steps you listed are the proper method for adding a SP4 image to your
RIS server. Additional information on this is located at

http://www.microsoft.com/windows200...p4/spdeploy.htm
#scenario_2_using_ris_to_install_windows_2000_integrated_with_the_service_pa
ck_ubra


Scott McArthur[MS]
Microsoft Windows Server Setup Support
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| And you are not having any problems deploying images with SP4 ?
|
| I have done it according the KB of microsoft:
|
http://search.microsoft.com/gomsuri...id=us&target=ht
tp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3ben-us%3b258868
|
| Here they state that Slipstream Switch for Windows 2000 Service Pack
| Update.exe Does Not Work with RIS Server Images . But from what I
understand
| from your mail, is that you do not experience this specific problem?
|
| "Cary Shultz" <cary90240@hotmail.com> wrote in message
| news:0a7c01c346d8$74a386a0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
| > Howdy! Howdy!
| >
| > I use RIS a good bit to install Win2000 Professional. I
| > have it all "nice and pretty" - meaning I have created a
| > $OEM$ folder and have a lot of the hotfixes and qchain.exe
| > located in that folder and use cmdlines.txt to minimize
| > the time that I have to spend at v4.windowsupdate.com
| > after the initial installation....
| >
| > It is also clear to me that if I want to have WIN2000 SP4
| > clients then my RIS Server has to be at the SP4 level. I
| > create that image first and can then do any SP3 or SP2 (
| > why in the world would I want SP2??? ) images...
| >
| > However, I have a question. I generally copy the contents
| > of the I386 folder from my WIN2000 Pro CD to a folder -
| > that I created called I386 - on my RIS Server. I then
| > create a folder called SP3 and copy the extracted SP3 I386
| > folder to that. I then slipstream ( using the -s: switch )
| > the SP3 files to my image. BTW - can I truly call this
| > an "image"?
| >
| > Maybe I have misunderstood a few posts in here but IIRC
| > some people have been stating that this is an incorrect
| > method! It has worked flawlessly for me to this point -
| > but if I am doing something sytematically incorrect I
| > would like to correct that part of my procedure.
| >
| > Thanks everyone,
| >
| > Cary
| >
| > BTW - I am going to look for the posts that lead me to
| > believe that I could be doing something incorrectly...
|
|
|